Jquery. Mike Davidson – How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJE. The whole world is going to widgets. This overused, overhyped term refers to third-party code one places on their website or blog in order to display such things as Flickr photos, Twitter status, or iTunes playlists. Everybody and their mom is putting out widgets these days, and although only about 1% of them are useful or interesting, they are an important new distribution mechanism that is changing the way companies think about syndication.
But there is a big problem with widgets: they slow down the sites that use them . In the best case, you have a company like Flickr whose servers are almost always snappy, and in the worst case, you have a young startup that is constantly struggling against increasing demand and occasionally can’t serve up any code at all. The problem is that in either of these cases, the completion of your site’s loading and rendering depends on someone else’s code living on someone else’s server. Following is a breakdown: Root Causes The Solution: WEDJE Caveats 1. 2. DHTML drag and drop tutorial.
10 JavaScript Effects to Boost Your Website’s Fanciness Factor | Six Revisions : Web Development and Design. There comes a point in time where we want to improve our website’s interface or provide a captivating experience that our users will remember. We have three main options (from hardest to easiest): write the scripts ourselves, use a JavaScript framework such as jQuery or mootools (which will make coding easier), use a pre-made script that works with existing JavaScript frameworks or that the author has developed from scratch. This article’s for the individuals who chooses to make things a bit easier and those who don’t want to re-invent the wheel.
Here’s a collection of 10 powerful – yet easy-to-implement — JavaScript effects to supplement your web page’s interface. These were picked using a “bang for your buck” methodology; meaning that these effects were chosen specifically because they provide high-impact effects with very little effort in installing and using them. Author’s note: Title of this article, by request, was changed to reflect the content featured in this list. 1) GreyBox.
JSLint, The JavaScript Verifier. Prototype UI. Blog Archive » 15 Javascript Snippets You Can’t Live Without. Please Note: We have moved to our new home WebCodr.com - please update your links and bookmarks! You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn’t have to affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special. Image Loading & Fading Crisp photography is a sure-fire way to make a site look great, but what about the loading times of those chunky images? Dynamic Data Tables HTML tables are so last century. Calendar / Date Selection Asking users to enter a valid date can be a pain - frustrating for the developer, and frustrating for the user.
Tabbed RollBar Tabs are great for sorting short snippets of information. Draggable Windows These draggable windows are lightweight and efficient, and are perfect for intranets and web-based applications where multiple views are required simultaneously. Zoomable Image Thumbnails One subject, many photos? Javascript Lightbox “PC Load Letter?!